Improvement in paints



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM H. JAMES, OF HAVANA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,574, dated July 30, 1878; application filed July 13, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. JAMES, of Havana, in the county of Schuyler and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Paints; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in a compound for paint, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

My compound for paint is composed of the following ingredients in about the following proportions, viz: Boiled linseed-oil, one gallon; rosin, three pounds; boiled coal-oil, one gallon; bees-wax, one-half pound; zinc, six pounds; gilders whiting, six pounds; Japan drier, one quart; dry ultramarine blue, one ounce. These ingredients are rubbed and mixed in the usual manner for the manufacture of paint, making a beautiful white paint for outside painting. For inside work it can be made perfectly fiat by adding a little spirits of turpentine.

This paint has a beautiful luster and can be colored to any shade to suit the taste.

Insects consisting of boiled linseedl, osin, boiled coal-oil, bees-wax, zinc, gjlders wlntln g, Japan drier, and ultramarinc blue, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. JAMES.

Witnesses:

J. O. BBODRICK, W. P. BRODRICK. 

